The first reading is a reading from the second book of Samuel.

That night the Lord spoke to Nathan and said,

Go tell my servant David.

Thus says the Lord, should you build me a house to dwell in?

I have not dwelt in a house in the day in which i led the children of israel out of egypt to the present

but i have been going about in tent under cloth and all my wonderings everywhere among the children of israel did i ever utter a word to anyone of the judges whom i charge to tend my people Israel to ask why have you not built me a house of cedar

now then speak thus to my servant david the lord of hosts has this to say it was i who took you from the pasture

and from the care of the flock to be a commander of my people

Israel. I have been with you wherever you went, and I have destroyed all your enemies before you.

And I will make you famous like the great ones on the earth. I will fix a place for my people, Israel.

I will plant them that they may dwell in their place without further disturbance.

Neither shall the wicked continue to afflict them as they did of old. Since the time I was first

appointed judges over my people, Israel. I will give you rest from all your enemies. The Lord also reveals to you that he will establish

a house for you. And when your time comes and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up your air

from you, sprung from your loins, and I will make his kingdom firm. It is he who shall build a house for my name.

And I will make his royal throne firm forever.

I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me.

If he does wrong, I will correct him with the rod of men and with human chastisements.

But I will not withdraw my favor from him him as I withdrew it from my predecessor,

Saul, whom I removed from my presence. Your house and your kingdom shall endure forever before me.

Your throne shall stand firm forever.

Nathan reported all these words and his entire vision to David.

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